[ILUG] OT: folks who've had trouble getting online in Ireland

[Lee Hosty]

Robin Farrell wrote:
> I too must agree my eircom experience has been great, line installed
> within 3 weeks, up, functioning and with no noticable downtime since.
> That was about a year and a half ago.

Sounds slow to be honest. I remember ordering an upgrade to ISDN in 
Limerick a few years ago and it took 2 or 3 days to put in the second 
line. Its the only time I have ever had the thought of praising Errorcom.

There are a lot of places out in the sticks where they have put in 
really cheap phonelines (there is no way they are copper) where dial-up 
is limited to 20k or less. Thats going to be the huge hold-up with 
nationwide broadband by the next century.